Do you have a Preppers Mentality?

As I sat down to write
this article about the Preppers Mentality, I thought I would
Google the subject to see what else has been written. As
is true for most of you, Google begins to auto-populate
results as you type in the letters in the search box.
Where am I going with this, you ask?

Gee, are these the most
common search terms related to Preppers Mentality? Are we all crazy?
Most people's perceptions are developed through the news media,
television and movies. Most mainstream media reports about Preppers are negative. There
are several responsible journalists that portray Preppers in a positive
light, when they can. When people think television, they think "Doomsday
Preppers". Love the show, but most times I don't think that National
Geographic does the Prepper community any favors.

Do we care? We shouldn't, but it's
hard not to get butt hurt when you are constantly vilified or portrayed
as "crazy".

But none of that is
important to the issue of being mentally prepared to be
a Prepper. Prepping is a mindset, a lifestyle. Like most
aspects of your life, it comes down to making choices. The Prepper mentality
requires decision making. Getting your head in the right
place. Are you a committed prepper in
a full time prepper mindset or are you more concerned
with self sufficiency and simply see being a prepper as
a part of becoming more independent? Are you interested
in being self-reliant, and to what degree?

The answer is very
personal to each of us. I have become acquainted with a
lot of Preppers via social media, podcasts and
interviews. We come in all shapes and sizes. There are
homesteaders whose primary interest is sustainable
living. There are survivalists, oftentimes ex-military,
who pride themselves in being able to survive with
nothing more than a good knife. Then there are, frankly,
wannabees who simply pay lip service to the concept of
Prepping. Lastly, there are some who are living out some
type of action hero, apocalyptic action hero fantasy. I
fear those guys the most.

My goal is to help
create committed preppers. A committed prepper chooses a
self-sustainable, preparedness lifestyle. A committed
prepper takes the best of homesteading, survivalist
training, post-apocalyptic fantasy and combines that
into a well-organized preparedness plan. The committed
prepper recognizes that our personal lives are subject
to unexpected setbacks and that our world is fraught
with danger.

The committed prepper
adopts a preparedness lifestyle to insure against life's
challenges, small and large. This requires developing a
prepper's mentality.

How will you deal with
disaster, setbacks in your life or the very real
possibility of a TEOTWAWKI event. A preppers mentality
has to include keeping calm and having the comfort of
knowing that your Preparedness Plan will insure your
survival. Your emotions will be on high alert. Cool,
calm heads will always prevail in a crisis. Think back
to your days in school or college. Before an exam, if
you knew the subject matter, your attitude was "I'll ace
this test". A well executed Preparedness Plan will make
you mentally prepared to be a committed prepper and give
you the comfort of knowing that you can deal with all of
life's challenges.

Step one to being a
committed prepper is knowledge. Best of all, the
learning process costs you nothing. You have a fabulous
resource available to you at the American Preppers
Network. Visit our website,
www.FreedomPreppers.com. Get active on Twitter and
Facebook, studying the resources that we provide you.
NEVER hesitate to ask any of us questions. In my entire
life, I have never found a group of like minded
individuals who are more willing to help their fellow
man than those in the preparedness community.

My hope is that if
enough people are prepared, more self-reliant and more
dedicated to personal and family security and
independence, then more like-minded individuals like us
will survive. The advocates and enablers of dependency,
vulnerability, and conformity are the masters of
regulation, legislation, sales and organization. They
sell their damaging notions and spread their ideas while
the values of preparedness and self-reliance are left
virtually defenseless, and are demonized. Their loss.

Get mentally tough
fellow Preppers and remember the words of a young lad in
North Carolina on Doomsday Preppers, No Such Thing As A
Fair Fight:

"When the Apocalypse
comes, we'll be safe ... and you won't."

Make the choice to
prepare yourself mentally to become a committed prepper. Be ready when disaster
strikes. Because you never know when the day
before ... is the day before.